The Throb of Life

Tired of typing on mobile while laptop broken, so longhand must do:

Fictive Kin

Shanna was in town and we rented her a bicycle so we could cycle 'round town. Some old man sitting on a stoop shouted at us, 

     "Are you two sisters?"

     "No, we're friends," I answered. 

     "Same thing," he yelled. 

the art & science of being a whole person

If we follow rather than fight anxiety to where it will lead us, we make additional and extraordinary discoveries. We realize that our supreme anxiety and our supreme values coincide. We are most anxious about losing the things that matter most. . .It seems we can choose our lowest despair as our highest goal precisely because that is the one way we can savour and see the fullness of our existence.

-Peter Koestenbaum, Freedom and Accountability at Work